National Basketball Association fines Clippers $250000 because of DeAndre Jordan pitch

The National Basketball Association fined the Clippers a whopping $250,000 Tuesday because they violated the league’s rules which prohibit teams from offering players unauthorized investment or business opportunities. But per the league’s statement, the violation took place in the Clippers’ July 2 presentation in which they are said to discussed a “potential third-party endorsement opportunity for the player”. The NBA’s anti-circumvention rules prohibits teams from providing any compensation for a player unless it is included in the player’s contract.

The team had no comment on the punishment.

You might remember the little drama in early July when Jordan and the Dallas Mavericks announced the star center had verbally accepted an offer from Mark Cuban to pack his bags and move to Dallas (Jordan also has a home in Houston, his hometown).

Oddly, this didn’t seem to be the selling point in Jordan’s decision to re-sign with the Clippers.

Of course, Jordan then backed out of the deal and decided to re-sign with L.A., saying that he second-guessed his decision to join the Mavericks and didn’t want to leave the Clippers. The Lakers focused a large part of their initial pitch this summer to Lamarcus Aldridge on the glitz of LA endorsements. Yet only the Clippers got fined for violating the anti-circumvention rules.

Secondly, it will be interesting if the instigator of this investigation is revealed.

No, Jordan has every right to sign whom he pleases to his company.

. That’s all that really matters.

Jordan recently won a lawsuit for .9 million over Dominick’s Finer Foods for using his name in an ad without his permission.